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Gary Cokins

Gary Cokins

Founder and CEO - Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC

United States | Professional Services - Information, Technology

Advocate of Analytics – Economist Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009)

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
The death of Paul A. Samuelson, the first America Nobel Laureate in economics, is a sad but expected loss. He was 94. In receiving the Nobel Prize in 1970, Samuelson was credited with converting the field of economics from one that ponders theory about behaviors unintelligible to the common person to one that solves problems. This is economics that answers questions about cause and effect with mathematical precision and logic.
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Why Study and Learn?

Posted about 11 years ago, 2 comments
The more you study, the more you learn. The more you learn, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you learn. So why study? The less you study, the less you learn. The less you learn, the less you forget. The less you forget, the more you learn. So why study?
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C-Suite Tweets

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
Will executive teams inevitably be texting and tweeting each other with Twitter? If so, here might be a team’s exchange of tweets as their quarterly financial results are about to be reported.
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From Silence to Sound – A Perilous Career Journey

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
Silent films peaked in 1928. The shift to “talkies” – where a soundtrack was added to movies – was quick, and not all the directors and actors who were successful during the silent film era made the transition. Is this now happening to the careers of managers who cannot make the transition from traditional to progressive performance management methodologies?
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Watch Me Talk Live about Performance Management

Posted about 11 years ago, 0 comments
Writing a blog about enterprise performance management involves lots of typing for me.
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Biography

Company:
Analytics-Based Performance Managent LLC

(Manager, Performance Management Solutions)

Websites:
My Blog
My authors page
My recent Perf Mgmt book

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

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Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in advanced cost management and performance improvement systems. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina. Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division and then served as Financial Controller and Operations Manager. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte Consulting. Then with KPMG (1988), he was trained on ABC by Harvard Business School Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of HP. From 1997 until recently Gary was in business development with SAS, a leading provider of enterprise performance management and business analytics and intelligence software.

Gary was the lead author of the acclaimed An ABC Manager’s Primer sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA). Gary’s next five books are:
- Activity Based Cost Management: Making it Work,
- Activity Based Cost Management: An Executive’s Guide
- Activity Based Cost Management in Government
- Performance Management: Finding the Missing Pieces to Close the Intelligence Gap
- Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
- Strategic Business Management: From Planning to Performance

Mr. Cokins participates and serves on committees including: The AICPA, CAM-I, the American Association of Accountants (AAA), the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), the Supply Chain Council, and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).

Mr. Cokins serves on board of advisors and regularly posts articles for www.kpilibrary.com , www.smartdatacollective.com , http://bigfatfinanceblog.com/ , www.information-management.com , www.iianalytics.com , and www.informs.org .

He serves with Professor Robert S. Kaplan on the International Monetary Fund’s activity-based costing advisory panel.

Mr. Cokins can be reached at gcokins@garycokins.com. His past SAS blogs are at http://blogs.sas.com/content/cokins